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I was thinking about movies recently and I feel like they’re one of those things that pretty much everyone has some kind of opinion on, even if they’re not a huge movie person. Like not everyone watches sports, not everyone plays games, not everyone reads books, not everyone cares about music in a deep way, but almost everyone has seen movies. Even if someone says they don’t really watch movies that much, they still probably have a few they like, a few they hate, and a few they remember from when they were younger.

That’s kind of what makes movies interesting to me. They’re just such a normal part of life that people don’t even always think about it. You watch them with family, with friends, on dates, alone, in theaters, at home, on airplanes, in hotel rooms, randomly on TV, whatever. Some movies you actually sit down and pay attention to, and some are just kind of on in the background while you eat or scroll your phone. But either way, they’re always around.

I also think it’s funny how people talk about movies differently depending on the situation. Sometimes you’re having a serious conversation about acting, directing, writing, cinematography, pacing, all that stuff. Other times you’re just saying “that movie was cool” or “that ending sucked” and that’s really all you need to say. Not every movie conversation has to be some deep film analysis. Sometimes the whole opinion is just that the movie was fun or boring or way too long.

The theater experience is also its own thing. Watching a movie in a theater is not the same as watching at home, even if your TV is good. There’s something different about sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers and everyone is reacting at the same time. If the movie is funny, the laughs feel bigger. If it’s scary, the tension feels better. If it’s a big action movie, the sound and screen make it feel more like an event. But also theaters can be annoying if people are talking, checking their phones, eating loud, or showing up late. So it can be great or kind of irritating depending on the crowd.

Watching at home is obviously easier though. You can pause it, eat whatever, sit however you want, not worry about anyone else, and if the movie is bad you can just turn it off. That’s probably why streaming became so normal. It’s just convenient. There are so many movies available now that sometimes the hardest part is actually choosing one. You can scroll for 30 minutes and then somehow end up watching nothing, which is kind of ridiculous but also happens all the time.

I think that’s another funny thing about movies now. There are more options than ever, but sometimes that makes it harder to just pick something. When you had fewer choices, you just watched what was on or rented whatever looked good. Now you can look through Netflix, Max, Hulu, Prime, Disney+, YouTube, whatever else, and every service has a bunch of stuff, but a lot of it starts blending together. You see posters, trailers, descriptions, ratings, and somehow still don’t know what you’re in the mood for.

Movies also have this weird thing where your mood can completely change how you feel about them. A movie can be good, but if you’re not in the mood for it, it might not hit. Or a movie can be kind of average, but if you watch it at the right time with the right people, you remember it way better than it probably deserves. There are movies I know are not masterpieces, but I still like them because I watched them at the right point in my life or with the right group. That counts for something.

I also think people sometimes act like every movie has to either be amazing or terrible, when a lot of movies are just fine. Some movies are just okay. You watch them, you enjoy parts of them, maybe you forget them later, and that’s not always a crime. Not everything has to be one of the greatest movies ever made or the worst thing ever released. Sometimes a movie is just a decent way to spend two hours.

At the same time, bad movies can still be entertaining depending on why they’re bad. Some bad movies are just boring, which is the worst kind. But some bad movies are fun because they’re messy or weird or accidentally funny. There’s a big difference between a movie that is bad but interesting and a movie that is bad and feels like homework. I’d rather watch something messy with some personality than something technically fine but completely forgettable.

I think actors are a big part of why people watch certain movies too. Sometimes you’ll watch something just because one actor is in it, even if the plot doesn’t sound that exciting. Some actors just make movies feel more watchable. Then there are directors where people do the same thing. If someone likes a certain director, they’ll watch their new movie just to see what they did this time. That’s pretty cool because it shows movies are not just about the story, but also about the people making them and the style they bring.

Sequels and franchises are another big part of movies now. Some people love them, some people are tired of them, but they’re everywhere. Superhero movies, horror sequels, action franchises, reboots, remakes, legacy sequels, all that. Sometimes it works and sometimes it feels like they’re just keeping a brand alive because people recognize the name. But I get why studios do it. It’s easier to sell something people already know than to convince everyone to care about a totally new thing.

Original movies are still cool though, especially when one breaks through and gets people talking. It’s always nice when a movie that is not attached to a huge franchise still gets attention. But even then, sometimes people say they want original movies and then don’t actually go watch them. That’s probably part of the problem. People say they’re tired of franchises, but then the franchise movies are the ones that make the most money. So studios keep making them because that’s what people show up for.

Awards movies are their own category too. Some of them are great, some of them feel like they were made specifically to win awards, and some are probably both. I don’t always watch all the Oscar-type movies, but I get why people care about them. They give people a reason to talk about film in a more serious way. But sometimes the award conversation can also get kind of annoying because people start treating movies like homework again. Like you’re supposed to respect something more than you actually enjoyed it.

I think that’s why I usually just care if a movie sticks with me. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It doesn’t have to be deep. It doesn’t have to have the best reviews. If I keep thinking about it later, or if I want to tell someone else to watch it, then it did something right. Some movies are technically great but I never think about them again. Other movies are flawed but they have one scene, one performance, one idea, or one feeling that stays with me.

There’s also something nice about rewatching movies. The first time you watch something, you’re mostly following the story and wondering what’s going to happen. But when you rewatch it, you notice different stuff. Sometimes it gets better. Sometimes it gets worse. Sometimes you realize a movie you loved as a kid is not actually that good, but you still like it anyway because it has nostalgia. Other times you rewatch something you didn’t care about before and it hits harder because you’re older now.

Nostalgia is a huge part of movies too. People love the movies they grew up with, even if those movies are not perfect. That’s not a bad thing. It just means movies get tied to memories. You remember where you were, who you watched it with, what point of life you were in, what it felt like at the time. That can make a movie mean more than just what’s on screen.

I also think movie opinions are funny because people can be so intense about them. Someone says they didn’t like a movie and people act personally attacked. Someone likes a movie everyone hates and now they have to defend themselves like they’re in court. But that’s also part of the fun. Movies are subjective, but people talk about them like there’s a scoreboard somewhere. Sometimes it gets annoying, but sometimes those arguments are entertaining too.

At the end of the day, I think movies are just one of those things people will always talk about because they’re easy to share. You can recommend one, complain about one, quote one, rewatch one, argue about one, or just have one on while doing nothing. Some are amazing, some are terrible, some are just okay, and most people have a mix of all three in their favorites whether they admit it or not. So yeah, I guess I just like movies as a thing. Not every movie has to be important. Not every movie has to change cinema. Sometimes it’s just nice to sit down, watch something, feel something for a bit, laugh, get annoyed, be surprised, get bored, enjoy a performance, hear a good score, see a cool shot, and then talk about it after. That’s probably why movies still work so well. They’re simple to watch, but there’s always something to say about them after.

okay so I was literally just sitting there thinking about The Walking Dead for no reason and I just kept thinking like… yeah that show is exactly what it says it is. there are walkers. and they are dead. and they walk. title makes sense.

anyway so the show starts with Rick and he just wakes up in a hospital like bro what and then he goes outside and everything is already completely cooked. cars everywhere, nobody around, it’s all just vibes and zombies except they call them walkers which I always thought was kind of funny because yeah man I can see that they walk you don’t have to tell me.

so then Rick finds people and those people find more people and then everybody’s just kind of hanging out trying not to die. they’ll find a place and for like two seconds you’re like okay cool maybe this is the spot maybe things are gonna be chill and then nope. something happens. it always happens. every single time. you’d think these people would stop getting comfortable but they keep doing it and honestly same I would too.

the walkers are around a lot obviously. sometimes it’s just like one or two being weird in a field and sometimes it’s like a whole situation. but the thing the show keeps saying basically is that the people are actually worse which like… yeah. walkers are just walking around biting stuff that’s kind of their whole thing. people are out here lying and scheming and being dramatic about it too so.

also so many characters. so many. some of them are around forever and some of them show up and you’re like oh I like this person and then they’re gone. some characters start off scared and soft and then later they’re out here doing stuff they never would’ve done before. that’s kind of the whole arc for like everybody on that show. something happens to them and then they’re different now. that’s it that’s the character development.

the places in the show are kind of their own thing too. the farm, the prison, Terminus which was creepy, Alexandria, Hilltop, the Kingdom, there’s a bunch. they all have different vibes. some have walls some have fences some are just kind of there. every time they get to a new place it’s like okay who’s here and are they normal or are they about to be a whole problem. usually it’s the second one eventually even if it takes a while.

the villains are also a big deal. the Governor was doing a lot. Negan showed up and was just absolutely not chill at all. there’s always some guy with a group and a whole system and then Rick’s group has to figure out what to do about it. sometimes they fight, sometimes they try to talk it out, sometimes they make a deal that everyone knows isn’t gonna last but they do it anyway. classic.

something I always notice is that everyone is so dirty all the time and I get it, the world ended, there’s no running water everywhere, but still. they are just filthy constantly. dusty, bloody, sweaty, some combination of all three. just grimy people walking around with weapons trying to make it. Daryl has his crossbow, Michonne has her sword, Rick has his gun, everyone’s got a thing. that’s kind of how you know who someone is on that show, by whatever they’re carrying around.

there’s also a lot of talking. like a LOT of talking. people standing around discussing what to do, where to go, whether to trust somebody, what happened before, what might happen later. sometimes it’s in a house, sometimes outside, sometimes in the woods while walking, which is kind of impressive to do at the same time. and then after all the talking something happens. or sometimes nothing happens yet and they just talk some more first.

and then there’s the quiet parts where somebody just stares at something for a while and there might be music or there might not be and then the episode ends kind of abruptly. the show does that a lot and I respect it actually.

I don’t know I just think it’s a show where the world already ended and now these people just have to keep living in it anyway which is kind of a lot to deal with. they need food and water and medicine and shelter and people to be around but the people are also sometimes the worst part. so they survive one thing and then there’s immediately another thing and it just keeps going like that.

so yeah. Walking Dead. walkers, people, places, weapons, dirt, drama, talking, more walking. some episodes are intense and some are pretty slow and some characters make it a long time and some really don’t. the roads are empty and the houses are sketchy and the walkers just keep showing up no matter what.

that’s pretty much the whole show lol

I played Clue again recently for the first time in a while, and I don’t really know why but it made me think way more than I expected. Not in some dramatic way where I’m going to act like Clue changed my life or anything, but just in that weird way where you revisit something you thought was simple and then realize there is more going on than you remembered, but also maybe not that much more, and you’re kind of just sitting there at the table thinking about Professor Plum like he matters.

When I was younger, I feel like Clue was just the murder game. You pick a character, walk around the mansion, say random accusations, and then eventually someone opens the envelope and either looks smart or completely stupid. That was basically the whole game to me. I don’t think I really understood the deduction part that much. I probably just guessed a lot and hoped I was right. I was mostly focused on moving into rooms and saying stuff that sounded funny, like accusing Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with a candlestick even though I had no actual reason to believe that.

But playing it now, it’s kind of funny how much of the game is just people pretending they know what they’re doing. Everyone has their little paper, everyone is crossing stuff off, everyone is trying to look mysterious, and half the table is probably just confused but acting like they’re two turns away from solving the whole thing. You can tell when someone gets shown a card and tries to keep their face normal, like they’re in a high stakes poker tournament, but really they just found out it wasn’t Mrs. Peacock.

The actual game is also way more slow and awkward than I remembered. You spend a lot of time trying to get to a specific room, then someone makes a suggestion that drags your piece across the board, then you’re suddenly on the other side of the mansion and now your whole plan is ruined because somebody wanted to accuse you with a wrench. It’s kind of annoying, but also funny because the whole game is basically everyone inconveniencing each other while trying to solve a murder nobody actually cares about.

I think what makes Clue work is that it has this serious theme but nobody plays it seriously for that long. Like the box and the setup act like you’re doing an elegant murder mystery, but five minutes in someone is misreading their notes, someone forgot what card they were shown, someone is accusing the same person every round, and someone else is mad because they can’t roll high enough to get into the kitchen. It turns into chaos, but in a very calm board game way.

The weapons are also funny because they’re so specific and random. The rope makes sense, the knife makes sense, the revolver makes sense, but then you have stuff like the candlestick and the lead pipe and it just feels so old school and dramatic for no reason. Like the whole game has this weird energy where everyone is rich, everyone is suspicious, and apparently every room in the house has something nearby that can kill somebody.

I don’t even know if I would call Clue an amazing game by modern standards. I know there are way deeper deduction games now, and probably way better ones mechanically, but Clue has this weird charm to it. It’s simple enough that almost anyone can play it, but it still gives people enough space to feel like they’re being clever. Even when you’re not being clever, you can still act like you are, which is maybe half the fun.

I also think Clue is one of those games where the group matters way more than the game itself. If everyone is quiet and just playing efficiently, it can be kind of dry. But if people start getting dramatic with the accusations or joking about the characters, it becomes way better. The game needs people to act a little dumb with it. Not too much, because then nobody knows what is happening, but just enough that it feels like a fake murder dinner party instead of homework.

By the end of the game, someone usually wins because they actually tracked everything correctly, or because everyone else messed up worse. And honestly that feels fitting. Clue is not always about being a genius detective. Sometimes it’s about not losing your notes, remembering what got shown to you, and not making a final accusation when you’re only like 70% sure because then you have to sit there embarrassed while everyone else keeps playing.

I don’t really have a huge conclusion here. I just think Clue is a funny game to go back to because it feels simple, awkward, outdated, kind of smart, kind of stupid, and still weirdly fun if the right people are playing. It’s not the best deduction game ever, it’s not the deepest thing in the world, and sometimes the movement is annoying, but there’s something about the whole mansion murder mystery setup that still works.

Anyway, I still don’t trust Professor Plum.

I got into crypto the same way I feel like a lot of people probably did, where I had heard about it for a while but never really paid serious attention until people around me started talking about it like there was actual money to be made. It wasn’t even some crazy dramatic thing where I studied blockchain for months or had some huge belief in the future of finance or anything like that, it was more like one of my friends mentioned they had made a little money on something, then another person said they had been buying some coins too, and after hearing it enough times I finally started looking at it like maybe I should at least try it and see what happens.

At first I didn’t really know what I was doing. I knew Bitcoin was the main one, I had heard of Ethereum, and then after that it was basically just a bunch of names and charts that all started blending together. I remember thinking everything sounded important because every project had some big explanation attached to it, but if I’m being honest I was mostly just looking at the price going up or down and trying to figure out if I was late or still early. Most of the time I didn’t know. I would read a few comments, watch a few videos, see someone saying something was about to run, and then I’d put a little money in just to feel like I was doing something.

Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. I made a little money here and there, lost some too, and after a while I kind of realized that my experience with crypto was not this massive life-changing thing. It was more like I put some money in, watched it move around, got excited when it went up, got annoyed when it went down, took some out when I felt like I should, then bought back later and wondered why I didn’t just wait. Nothing huge, nothing movie-level, just a normal person messing around with crypto and trying not to be too stupid with it.

I think the funny part is how serious it can feel in the moment even when the actual amounts are not that crazy. Like I could have a pretty normal amount in there and still be checking it like I had my whole future riding on a green candle. I’d open the app for no reason, close it, then open it again like something meaningful changed in thirty seconds. Sometimes I would tell myself I was being patient and thinking long term, but then I’d still be looking at the chart every day anyway.

I’ve had moments where I thought I should just leave it alone and not touch anything, and then other moments where I felt like maybe I should move things around or take profit or buy something else. Most of the time I don’t even know if I made the best choice, I just know I made a choice and then had to live with it for a little bit. Sometimes I took money out and felt smart because it dropped later, and other times I took money out and then watched it keep going up and felt like an idiot. That’s probably just how it goes.

I’m not one of those people who can say crypto made me rich or ruined my life. It has just been this weird side thing I keep checking on. I put money in when I can, take some out when I want, sometimes I hold, sometimes I sell too early, sometimes I buy too high, and sometimes I get lucky and pretend like I knew what I was doing. I don’t really have some big strategy beyond trying to not overdo it and trying to learn as I go.

I still think there’s money to be made, but I also think it’s easy to get caught up in the idea that every move has to be perfect. For me it’s been a lot more boring than that. It’s mostly waiting, second guessing, checking prices, reading people argue, and hoping whatever I bought doesn’t immediately dump after I buy it. Some days it feels fun, some days it feels pointless, and most days it’s just kind of there.

I guess that’s really all I wanted to say. I got into crypto because people around me showed me you could make money, I tried it, made some, lost some, kept messing with it, and now I’m still here doing the same basic thing. Nothing insane, nothing inspirational, just trying to make a little money and not get completely wrecked.

Good luck to everyone holding, trading, waiting, or just messing around like me. Hopefully we all make some money.

Out of every possible moment in all of human history, roughly 300,000 years of it, you exist right now. Not during the Roman empire, not during the ice age, not a thousand years from now. Right now. And nobody really has a satisfying answer for why that is.

The weird part is that “you” couldn’t have existed at any other time. The exact chain of events that produced you is so specific and so fragile that if anything changed, even slightly, you wouldn’t be you. Different parents, different moment, different person. So in one sense the question answers itself. You exist now because now is the only time you could have existed given everything that happened before you.

But that just pushes the question back further. Why did that chain of events happen the way it did. Why did the specific people who made you exist when they did. And you can keep pulling that thread all the way back to the beginning of everything and the answer never really arrives, it just keeps going.

There’s also the part nobody likes to sit with which is that for most of time you didn’t exist. Billions of years went by before you showed up and you weren’t there for any of it and you didn’t experience not being there because there was no you to experience anything. And a similar amount of time will pass after you’re gone. Your entire existence is this almost impossibly thin sliver in the middle of an amount of time the human brain genuinely cannot comprehend.

And yet here you are reading this. Conscious. Aware that you exist. Able to even ask the question in the first place.

Not fully balding or anything but noticed things feeling a little thinner lately and shedding more than usual my hairs feel fragile and like they come off so easily so I’ve been looking into minoxidil as an option. The stuff seems to work based on everything I’ve read but the part that nobody really talks about is what it actually looks like to commit to it long term.

Like I get that you have to stay on it or you lose whatever you gained, that part is well documented. What I want to know is from people who have actually been doing it for five, ten, however many years, does it just become a normal part of your routine or does it stay annoying. Does the twice a day thing ever stop feeling like a chore. Are there older guys in here in their 50s and 60s still applying it daily and is that just fine or does it get weird at some point.

Also genuinely curious if there’s a point where most people decide to just stop and accept it instead of continuing to manage it. Like is there an age or a threshold where people just tap out and feel fine about that decision.

Not looking for medical advice just want to hear from people who are actually living with this long term because most of what comes up when you search is just the basic clinical stuff about how it works. Want to know what it’s actually like as a lifestyle thing years in.

Out of every possible moment in all of human history, roughly 300,000 years of it, you exist right now. Not during the Roman empire, not during the ice age, not a thousand years from now. Right now. And nobody really has a satisfying answer for why that is.

The weird part is that “you” couldn’t have existed at any other time. The exact chain of events that produced you is so specific and so fragile that if anything changed, even slightly, you wouldn’t be you. Different parents, different moment, different person. So in one sense the question answers itself. You exist now because now is the only time you could have existed given everything that happened before you.

But that just pushes the question back further. Why did that chain of events happen the way it did. Why did the specific people who made you exist when they did. And you can keep pulling that thread all the way back to the beginning of everything and the answer never really arrives, it just keeps going.

There’s also the part nobody likes to sit with which is that for most of time you didn’t exist. Billions of years went by before you showed up and you weren’t there for any of it and you didn’t experience not being there because there was no you to experience anything. And a similar amount of time will pass after you’re gone. Your entire existence is this almost impossibly thin sliver in the middle of an amount of time the human brain genuinely cannot comprehend.

And yet here you are reading this. Conscious. Aware that you exist. Able to even ask the question in the first place.

Not talking about the movie. The movie is whatever. I mean the actual Crichton book that the movie barely even used. Most people in this fandom have seen all six films, can quote the original front to back, have opinions on every sequel, but have never touched the second novel and it’s kind of crazy to me because it’s genuinely good.

The science stuff is better than the first book. Crichton clearly had more time to think through how these animals would actually behave and it shows. The raptor stuff, the T-Rex pack stuff, it reads like actual predator behavior not just monsters chasing people through a jungle. That’s the whole reason the first book worked and he does it better the second time around.

And the movie took basically nothing from it. Like three things made it over. So if you watched The Lost World in 1997 and figured you knew the story, you don’t. Different characters, different tone, different ending, completely different vibe. It’s its own thing.

It’s not going to hit the same way the original does, nothing does, but it’s way better than its reputation and I think it gets ignored because the movie was kind of mid and people just associate the two. The book deserved better than that adaptation.

If you’ve never read it and you’re actually a fan of this franchise it should probably be next on your list.

I remember showing up the first week thinking I was in decent shape and that it was just going to be a warehouse job, like how hard could it really be. By day three my feet were done. Not sore, done. I was going home and just sitting there not wanting to move. Legs hurt, back hurt, parts of my body I didn’t think about before were making themselves known. I was convinced I had made a mistake taking the job.

But nobody really warns you that the first two weeks are basically just your body figuring out how to exist in that environment. The concrete floors, the constant movement, the pace, all of it hits different when you’re not used to it. And you’re also still learning where everything is, trying to not fall behind on rate, trying to figure out the unspoken rules of your specific building and your specific shift, all at the same time. It’s a lot hitting you at once.

Around week three something just kind of clicked. Feet stopped hurting as bad. I knew my area. I stopped overthinking the scanner. The shift started going faster because I wasn’t spending half of it being confused or in pain. It doesn’t magically become easy but it becomes manageable in a way that the first two weeks make you think it never will.

If you just started and you’re reading this from your car on break wondering if it gets better, it does for most people. Get good insoles, drink more water than you think you need, and just survive the first two weeks. Your body will figure it out.

Cyclops has never had a fair shot on screen and it’s honestly one of the biggest missed opportunities in superhero movie history.

Every X-Men movie that featured Cyclops treated him like he was in the way. He was supposed to be the leader, the guy the X-Men rally around, the one who carries the weight of Xavier’s dream more than anyone else on the team, and instead every live action version of him just kind of stood in the background looking serious until Wolverine needed someone to have a problem with. That’s not Cyclops. That’s a prop with a visor.

The actual comics version of Scott Summers is one of the most interesting characters Marvel has ever written, especially when you get into the later stuff where he starts questioning everything he was raised to believe and becomes this morally complicated figure who is neither clearly right nor clearly wrong. That’s a movie. That’s actually a great movie if someone cares enough to make it. A guy who has had control beaten into him since childhood, who can never fully relax or let his guard down literally because of his powers, who devoted his entire life to a cause and then started to wonder if the way he was taught to fight for it was even right. There is so much there.

The MCU reboot is going to get another shot at this character and I genuinely think if they don’t take it seriously it’ll be the same mistake all over again. Cyclops works as a lead. He doesn’t work as a supporting character who exists to make the cooler guy look cooler by comparison. Give him a solo film, give him actual internal conflict, don’t make him the straight man, and let the character breathe for once.

He’s been waiting like 60 years for a decent adaptation. At some point someone has to just do it right.

I feel like a lot of people are looking at current prices and thinking “yeah this is already high,” but I don’t think people are fully factoring in how weird the supply side is now.
Like yeah, cases still exist, skins still exist, capsules still exist, but the amount of people actually willing to sell at these prices feels way lower than before. A lot of older supply is just sitting in dead inventories, long-term holders, banned accounts, trade locked storage, or people who just forgot they even own this stuff.
At the same time, CS2 made a lot of items feel more “real” visually. Dopplers, printstreams, fades, crafts, stickers, agents, all that stuff just hits different now compared to GO. Even if gameplay is still up and down, the market side feels like it has way more casual attention than before.
I’m not saying everything only goes up forever, obviously there will be dips and people panic selling, but I do think people are underestimating how much of the “supply” is not actually liquid supply.
To me, the real question is not “how many exist?”
It’s “how many are people actually willing to sell?”
And that number might be way lower than people think.
Curious what everyone thinks. Are prices already pricing this in, or is the market still sleeping on how tight supply actually is?

Had the 5800X for a while and honestly it was fine, like I wasn’t sitting here struggling or anything, games ran, no real complaints. But I kept seeing people talk about the 9800X3D and the 3D V-Cache stuff and I figured it was just the usual hype that comes with every new release. Told myself I didn’t need it for probably six months. Eventually I just pulled the trigger because I knew I wasn’t going to stop thinking about it until I did.

Had to do a full platform swap since it’s AM5, so new motherboard and DDR5 on top of the CPU cost, which hurt a little more than I wanted it to. The build itself went fine though, nothing crazy. Got everything up and running and ran some games I already knew well so I’d actually notice a difference instead of just staring at benchmarks.

The difference is real. The 1% lows are the thing that got me because that’s where you actually feel it during gameplay, not just in average FPS numbers. It’s noticeably smoother in the moments that used to feel slightly off. I wasn’t expecting it to be as noticeable as it was, I thought I was going to have to convince myself it was worth it, but I didn’t have to. It just was.

If you’re on Zen 3 and on the fence about it, I’m not going to tell you that you need to upgrade right now, but if you’ve been thinking about it for a while you probably already know what you’re going to do. The 3D V-Cache is not a gimmick. That’s really all I wanted to say.

Every match feels like a ranked tournament. SBMM puts me against the same high-skill players nonstop. Team balancing is terrible half my teammates are brand new while the other team is a full party of high level sweats.
Pre-game lobbies used to be part of the fun. Now it’s either dead silent or someone gets banned in seconds for talking. The game punishes any personality.
I miss when Call of Duty felt casual and chaotic. Hop in, play a few games, talk shit, laugh, move on. Now it feels like work. Warzone is even worse.
The franchise used to be the best party shooter out there. Right now it just feels exhausting.
Anyone else feel the same? What changed for you?